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  • #1
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #5
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Winston S. Churchill
    “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #10
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Richard Paul Evans
    “Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”
    Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

  • #14
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #15
    Glenn Beck
    “Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”
    Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater

  • #16
    Glenn Beck
    “When you choose the path, you choose the destination.”
    Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater

  • #17
    Glenn Beck
    “Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.”
    Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

  • #18
    Glenn Beck
    “You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.”
    Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

  • #19
    Glenn Beck
    “ After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it."
    A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it?
    If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.”
    Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

  • #20
    Glenn Beck
    “But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.”
    Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

  • #21
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good. ”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • #22
    Brigham Young
    “To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked. ”
    Brigham Young

  • #23
    Louis L'Amour
    “No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #24
    Louis L'Amour
    “To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #25
    Louis L'Amour
    “Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.”
    Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

  • #26
    Louis L'Amour
    “The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
    and you miss all you are traveling for.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #27
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #29
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #30
    Fred Rogers
    “When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
    Fred Rogers



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